immune boosting ginger tea with goji berries


With all the winter bugs flying around, we need to take care of our overworked immune systems and supply them with some yummy healing and warming teas and elixirs this winter! Adding ingredients like ginger, lemon, and raw honey to your teas can enhance your immune system and help to arm yourself against those nasty colds. Who really has time to be sick these days:)

Here are some super immune enhancers to add to your teas:


Ginger  Ginger tea boosts the body’s immune system against flu and cold viruses. Ginger will warm you up quickly and help your body to sweat out infection. Sweating out toxins helps you to recover quicker, and keeping warm helps you to relax allowing you get plenty of rest. According to Traditional Chinese Medicine, ginger is pungent in taste and relates to lungs, spleen, and stomach. In general, it is able to promote circulation of blood, facilitate sweating, dispel cold, stop vomiting, disperse phlegm, and cease cough. Ginger tea soothes the throat and your tummy!

Lemon  You need vitamin C for a healthy immune system and to increase resistance to all those “invading” microbes that your body is busy fighting. One lemon can provide 80% of our daily recommended amount of vitamin C. Studies have shown that the vitamin C in lemons is effective at boosting the immune system by encouraging the body to produce more white blood cells, which fight cold viruses. Lemon juice also soothes coughs, sore throats and wheezing and helps cut mucous.

Goji Berries  Goji berries are also very rich in vitamin C and vital antioxidants. Antioxidants help prevent disease from occurring by neutralizing the damaging free radicals that cause cellular damage. Goji berries are filled with powerful antioxidant compounds that help boost immune function and help repair cells damaged by free-radicals.

Raw Honey  As well as being delicious, raw honey is also medicinal. It is antibacterial and good for infections of all sorts. Buckwheat honey reduces the amount of coughing someone suffering from the flu has to endure. In addition, buckwheat honey has also been proven to soothe throat irritation. Manuka honey also has many immune boosting and anti-viral properties.


Here is a quick and delish recipe for an immune boosting elixir, Christmas style:

Spiced Ginger Tea with Goji Berries Honey and Lemon

immune boosting ginger tea with goji berries

2 cups water
1-2 tsp fresh ginger root, grated
1/2 lemon
6 whole cloves
3 orange peels
1 Tbsp raw honey
Handful goji berries

How to make:
Bring filtered water to a boil. Turn off heat and add in ginger, cloves, orange peels and lemon. (Squeeze lemon juice into tea first, then throw the lemon rind in there too). Allow flavours to infuse for 10 minutes. If you like your tea really hot, leave burner on the lowest heat. Strain into tea cup and stir in honey and goji berries.

Makes 1-2 cups of tea.